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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Killing non-Muslims is the point of Islam. To the extent that it has any point. That isn't to say that Islam doesn't preach the virtues of charity and love for one's fellow Muslim. It does. But its virtues are not original. Like most of the rest of the framework of it, they are lifted from existing religions.

When the Sahih Muslim's Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying, "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself"; it's a distortion of the Christian Bible. And when Obama quotes the Koran as saying, "If any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of a whole people,” it's an equally shameless plagiarism of the Jewish Talmud.

Like the Soviet Constitution's guarantee of freedom of religion, these are nice sentiments borrowed from other people and then not actually put into practice. The Islam that matters is the one that's put into practice not only at the World Trade Center or the Westgate Mall, but in the everyday lives of people in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Islamic violence we are told is an aberration. But it isn't. To the extent that Islam is anything, it is violence.

Islam may have become a religion, but it began as a code. Like the Pirate Code or the Thieves Law of Russia, it was a set of rules that allowed a select group of bandits to choose leaders, plan attacks and divide the loot.

The code invested their actions with meaning, it kept order in their ranks and allowed the members to believe that dying for the gang was more than a martial ethos, but also contained a spiritual element. Similar attempts to invest gang life with spirituality can be found in the tattoos, rap songs and graffiti memorials of every street gang in America.

Imagine the Kingism of the Latin Kings street gang, which has its own prayers, crude theology and philosophy becoming the religion of the gangs ruling over a Post-American civilization. In the 80s, the Chicago gang Blackstone Rangers realized the benefits of becoming a religion and declared itself the El Rukn tribe of the Moorish Science Temple of America.

Despite the elaborate mythology, the Latin Kings is a gang first and a religion second. In time it might become a full religion, stranger things have happened, but it will never be able to escape its origins. It will at its heart always be a gang code with an emphasis on providing a spiritual overlay for gang violence.

And that is the case with Islam.

After over a thousand years, after its own empires and conquests stretching around the world, after endless religious schools, reform movements, theological debates and splinter groups, Islam is not able to leave its gang roots behind. It is still at its core a gang religion. That is why it appeals so well to convicts who recognize that they are interacting with something far more ancient than Kingism.

That is also why Islam, like most street gangs, degenerates so readily into internecine violence. No matter how much its devotees dream of conquering the decadent West and planting the black flag of Islam everywhere, they can't help turning their guns on each other, because gangs are naturally primed to fight amongst themselves. The gang code never suffices to settle disputes among men who live by violence. They may fight to impose Islamic law on the world, but they can't live by it.

Syria is Islam at its most primal with gangs fighting over the ruins of cities, small groups joining up, Shiite and Sunni militias killing each other, Free Syrian Army and Al Nusra Front gangs fighting over bakeries and pipelines, an endless stream of recruits from around the world rushing to join up in a gang war that has claimed over 100,000 lives.

That is how Islam began. One man and his gang. That man may not be depicted or the gangs of his followers will blow things up. When they aren't blowing up each other. The gang spread around the world. Its Caliphs and Emirs went from thugs and clan leaders to rulers of nations. And then the whole thing collapsed again. Now the gang leaders are trying to get the gang back together again.

Islam was born in the chaos of the implosion of two empires, Byzantium and Persia, tearing at each other until they both gave way and were overrun by Islam. The second coming of Islam took place during the climactic battle between two new empires, America and the Soviet Union, who exhausted each other, and may end up suffering the same fate as the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanids.

The common denominator is that the rise of Islam parallels the collapse of other civilizations. Like the jackal sniffing around the bones of empire, the gangs of Islam step into a vacuum, but can never fill it. The second-hand knowledge that they steal and pass off as their own never leads them anywhere. The Golden Age built on the labor and creative ideas of others passes and there is nothing left except bitter resentment at greatness lost and a future denied.

Islam always reverts back to the gang. It comes out of the desert and returns to the desert. It begins with a handful of men raiding civilized towns and cities. And no matter how much time must pass and how the world turns, it always reverts back there. Over a thousand years later, the climactic struggle of Islam is almost indistinguishable from what it was in the time of Mohammed.

The world has changed dramatically in a thousand years, but a few thousand men are still ambushing each other in the desert in the name of a warlord named Mohammed.

This isn't the ideal Islam. But that is only because the Islamic ideal is killing non-Muslims. Kingism dedicates itself to the fight against the forces of Anti-Kingism. What is Anti-Kingism? It's everything that isn't a Latin King. Islam likewise dedicates itself to fighting the Kuffar. And the Kuffar are those who deny Islam. They are the forces of Anti-Caliphism. They are everyone who isn't a Muslim.

If Islam stands for anything, it's killing non-Muslims. Islam can't really think far beyond that. Its mindset is that of a dime store Alexander who doesn't want to even think about the prospect of not having any more lands to conquer, towns to sack, women to rape, homes to rob and libraries to torch.

The gang can only think of fighting more, killing more and doing the same things it did last week again. It finds meaning in the ethos of the fight and in the comradeship of fellow gang members. That is why Jihad is so central to Islam. It is why women occupy such an inferior position. Jihad is the gang culture of Islam. Its bonding rituals are central to Islam whose original elements derive mainly from the raids of Mohammed and his companions against the more civilized peoples of the region.

Islam finds its meaning from fighting and killing non-Muslims. It is the only meaning that it can ever have. The exercises of its devotees who memorize countless Koranic verses, who debate the fine points of laws and prepare for their pilgrimages to Mecca must inevitably converge on the violent core that gives the whole thing purpose.

The historical dynamic of Islam has never left behind its gang origins. Its future is measured in terms of conquest and more conquest. The manifest destiny of Islam is an eating contest as its holy warriors cram more and more territories and people into an expanding Caliphate that falls apart vomiting up the conquests into chaos. The lessons are never learned. The holy warriors fall to fighting each other.

Islamists proclaim that Islam is the answer. The trouble is that they've forgotten the question.

And the question was how do you keep a band of bandits from stabbing each other over the loot while convincing them that if they die while stealing a goat or raping someone's third wife, they'll go to a magical place full of goats and virginal third wives with skin of the color of bone marrow.

As the holy warriors of the Syrian Civil War killing each other over control of bakeries while fighting to impose the perfection of Islamic Law on everyone can tell you, it's not a very good answer even to that question. It's an even worse answer to any larger social problem that doesn't involve twenty men trying to divide the profits from one raid on an abandoned university.

But when a religion is based on gang violence and because of that inevitably reverts to gang violence, it's an answer that keeps coming up again and again.

The answer of Islam is the answer of violence. It's the answer of uniting the various gangs around killing non-Muslims. Sometimes that answer even works.

Assad's Alawite neo-Shiites were able to work together with the Muslim Brotherhood Salafist Sunnis of Hamas and the Shiite Ayatollahs of Iran and the Super-Salafist Sunnis of Al Qaeda as long as they had a common goal of killing Americans or Israelis or somebody. When that goal broke down, they began killing each other instead.

Islam's answer only works when there is a non-Muslim target within reach and none of the Muslims have time to start envying the other's rifle, sunglasses or country. But then the violence halts and the gang begins dividing up the loot, knives are drawn and another bloody Arab Spring begins.

Every fourth gang hip-hop song is about how hard it is to leave the gang life. The other three are about how everyone else out there is a pretender and not a real gangsta. That is Islam in a nutshell. Islamic civilization can't leave the gang life and insists that every other civilization and even most other Muslims are pretenders and that only the Salafiest of the Salafists are the real Gangstas.

Syria, Kenya, September 11 is how they prove it. We don't have a foreign policy problem with Islam.

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occupant 9
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I've long seen Islam as a men's club for violent, deviant and unsavoury sorts who know that as a collective force, are formidable and unlikely to be challenged except by those also equally violent in response. I guess that would make it a gang.

Islam is not conducive to philosophy. You can't read it and gain a larger sense of the world. There's no room for speculation afterward. It's a series of badly cribbed scriptures and the narrative of Islam's present, past and future wars.

Great article. Daniel must be right because the same people who once told us we needed to know about the problems of gang members and dialogue with them now tell how we have to do the same for Jihadists. These same people never seem to be concerned with the victims.

And Islam's so-called God? - completely arbitrary.Why does the universe exist? Because Allah wills it, from moment to moment, though it's here now, the whole Universe may disappear in the next moment, if Allah wills it.Why do things happen? Because Allah wills it. There is no cause and effect, just Allah's will, completely arbitrary.There is no reason, just Allah's will.There can be no responsibility, because man controls nothing, Allah controls everything.There can be no morality, because Allah saves as he pleases, and condemns as he pleases, arbitrarily, without regard to man's actions.Islam is anti-reason, anti-science, anti-morality, anti common sense.Allah is irrational, immoral and chaotic, and his gang runs riot, because Allah wills it.

Islam was created by Caliph Abd al Malik (who knew practically nothing about Islam) and his amoral, vicious lieutenant al Hajjaj who put together the Koran and the hadiths. Everyone knew Islam was fabricated by them from scraps of texts that came from a variety of sources. The only coherence in Islam is 'Plunder' which is the name of a chapter of the Koran. The ethics of Islam are 'opportunism'...the normative rules of organized crime...plus unswerving loyalty to the gang leader, loyalty to crime 'brothers', and hatred of the victims...the patsies, the marks, the kafirs. The kafirs deserve to be robbed and hunted as sport. Most Moslems are extremely dishonest with themselves and can't bring themselves to see the hideous amorality of this gangster mentality that comes from Mohammed himself. Mohammed in the Sira is Islam.

"...We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder.

This cult attaches itself to a political cause but parasitically strangles it. The death cult has strangled the dream of a Palestinian state.

The suicide bombers have not brought peace to Palestine; they've brought reprisals. The car bombers are not pushing the U.S. out of Iraq; they're forcing us to stay longer. The death cult is now strangling the Chechen cause, and will bring not independence but blood.

But that's the idea. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.

It's about massacring people while in a state of spiritual loftiness. It's about experiencing the total freedom of barbarism - freedom even from human nature, which says, Love children, and Love life. It's about the joy of sadism and suicide."

and

"...This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a

sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. "

Daniel-- I think this is your best essay yet on islam. This is EXACTLY why we need more people standing up and saying, not here, not in my country. This is why islam is so successful in prisons-- gang culture is something most of those criminals understand. Give it a "religious" overlay, and boy, they're on board.

Two things in particular about Islam I don't understand is how a billion people can be caught up in this; and how has it endured for so long. The one man who cannot be drawn must be the evil genius of all time. I'm reading Philip Kerr's "Pale Criminal" set in 1938 Berlin, which is interesting not because Nazi's were, but because they exist as episode in the life of a great nation. Islam, conversely, has no deeper culture capable of inspiring regeneration. It seems to have nothing to offer but terror and tedium. The detective story deals with tough streets, outsiders, and underworlds and traces its origins back to medieval romances, but it doesn't work in a world devoid of individual conscience, or without hope of justice or redemption.

Mrs. Adela Bradley – You asked: "How deeply did any of this secularism and modernism penetrate to the folk? Isn't the inability to raise the living standards of the common people due to the Islam's failings as a poisoned wellspring of culture?" Not entirely. Neither nature nor society will tolerate a vacuum. What propelled the nationalist/Islamist movements in the Mideast was the collapse of Western philosophy, that is, the incremental discarding of Enlightenment ideas by Western governments and cultures over the course of about a century. When reason is removed from the relationships between men, barbarism – or something like Islam, or Nazism, or Communism – will rush in to fill the void. Islam has no strength of its own, it can only occupy what's been abandoned. It is, among other things, parasitical, cancerous. It would have remained on the fringes of Western civilization had our political and cultural leaders not submitted to statism, cultural relativism, apologetics for Western culture being superior to Islamic, and so on. In short, the spread of irrationalism. The growth of Islam was in direct proportion to the self-abasement of Western culture and the rise of statism in the West.

Mr. Edward Cline - Yes, I think the Islamic cancer and the Byzantine/Western European immune system failure analogy is apt. Cancer cells, however, have DNA. It seems, at its best, Islam achieves a paralytic stasis. And, at its worst, it metastasizes. As to how to inoculate now against Islam, I agree cultural relativism has got to go. But I think the failure of Enlightenment ideas is actually due to an over-emphasis on rationality, as set apart from a world of virtues that includes wisdom and experience.

Although Islam may not be conducive to philosophy (particularly in the sense of discussion, debate or change), it is, nonetheless, built on a philosophical foundation. The underlying metaphysics and epistemology drives their morality, which in turn drives their politics. When your view is that death is better than life, then death becomes an important goal. When your view is that you have no free will and are only driven by destiny and emotion, then unthinking, animalistic behavior easily follows. When the collective is more important than the individual, then sacrifice and violence become natural.

The unspoken other half of this way of existing is that it must force terror and misery into every aspect of their lives. In such circumstances, the promise of riches (of whatever kind) in the afterlife becomes that much more appealing, which makes the system self-reinforcing.

In the end, it's a form of madness, detached from reality and the requirements of life.

Although Islam is by far the worst of religions, it is by no means the only one that relies on force. Faith equals force. Before tempered by Rome and the Renaissance, Judaism and Christianity respectively very much relied on conquest by conversion. Indeed, religion itself is the well-spring of secular socialist tyranny, which itself is secular supernaturalism.

If we truly wish to rid the world of tyranny, secular and religious, we need to reject their Platonist roots.

"The best ordered state will be one in which the largest number of persons ... most nearly resembles a single person. The first and highest form of the State ... is a condition in which the private and the individual is altogether banished from life, and things which are by nature private, such as eyes and ears and hands, have become common, and in some way see and hear and act in common, and all men express praise and blame and feel joy and sorrow on the same occasion, and whatever laws there are unite the city to the utmost ..." (Plato's _Republic_ & _Laws_ c. 370 BCE)

The primacy of consciousness religious metaphysics of Neo-Platonic Idealism (evasion), the religious epistemology of faith (emotionalism) and the ego hating Judeo-Christian ethics of self-sacrifice (rationalization) make possible the irrational politics of a supernaturalist totalitarian socialism.

That isn’t to say that Islam doesn’t preach the virtues of charity and love for one’s fellow Muslim. It does.

Without wishing to discredit an otherwise accurate article, the foregoing statement is a partial truth, at best.

If one holds up Islam for close inspection the vast majority of its so-called "virtues" are all imposed with death being the most typical punishment for non-compliance.

Ergo, Islamic temperance, religiosity and so many other of its much-vaunted qualities are obtained through coercion. Even the word "cooperation" does not accurately describe Muslim acquiescence to shari'a law. As J.C. Watts noted, "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking."

Any putative "religion" that obtains worship under constant threat of death doesn't have much in the way of an inspirational component. It is a lot more about compulsion, something that Islam denies with conspicuously loud and violent protests. Indeed, Islam "doth protest too much."

Should anyone desire further proof of this, please note how Islamic scholars never make any fuss over recent conversions at gunpoint when terrorists are holding hostages. Nothing makes such a folly of Islam as its acceptance of such patently forced adoptions.

Islamic violence we are told is an aberration. But it isn’t. To the extent that Islam is anything, it is violence.

I prefer the word "evil". If the word "evil" is to have any meaning, then Islam must be known as "evil". Violence is merely ancillary to the overall Islamic machine.

As for Islam being a religion, here is a very simple thought experiment.

Within Islam there is no separation of church and state. In fact, the few decent Muslims who protest this perversion of spirituality are routinely murdered by their more pious brethren. What confronts us is the simple fact that:

IF THERE'S NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE … IT'S NOT A CHURCH, IT'S A STATE.

There can be no other interpretation of Islam. At best it is a political system masquerading as an ostensible religion. However, even that flimsy disguise falls away in tatters when the element of constant and routine intimidation arises as the only way for shari'a law to be kept in place.

Another relatively easy though experiment confirms this:

WHAT COUNTRY OR CULTURE HAS EVER VOLUNTARILY ADOPTED ISLAM?

There is none and no sane people enroll themselves into Islam save at sword point.

Finally, and perhaps most revealing, is the issue of Islamic martyrdom. Typically, Christian martyrs met their ends due to their refusal to renounce their faith. Most often, the net result was their own death and few others.

What passes for "martyrdom" in Islam can only be termed as one of the most ghastly perversions of the entire concept. Killing a maximum number of innocent people who are not demanding that you renounce your faith can only be a one-way express ticket to hell but, instead, supposedly earns such murderers their place in paradise.

Promising paradise to mass murderers qualifies Islam as a death cult and not much else. Most telling of all is the regularity with which Islam devours its young. No other trait speaks such volumes about the hideous nature of Islam. As Golda Meir stated,

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”

Muslims love death so much more than life to where it is rapidly becoming churlish of us to not grant their most fervid desire.

It should never be allowed by backwards people to be considered “illegal” to accuse these criminals (moslems) of their crimes, allegedly because the painful truth might offend them or hurt their feelings, & so “make” them commit even more crimes!

No problem was ever solved by ignoring it, & nobody is doing even these moslems any favours, by indulging their ancestral lies that islam is a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) or a “race” (much less one of poor oppressed People Of Colour”)!

Islam is a threat to everyone because IT says it is.

Holy mobster Moslems only hate infidels because the Qur’an says “god” orders them to – Period.

ALL moslems are criminals because, by their own rules, they must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an.

And the Qur’an tells them that they are so “superior” to all non-moslem humans, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-moslems in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being moslems.

“Slay the idolators wherever you find them…” Chapter 9, verse 5

“When you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads until you have made a great slaughter among them….” Ch. 47:4

So the Qur’an is a clearly-written, us-versus-them hate-crime book, endorsing a permanent might-makes-right death-threat.

And although all of it’s earlier, more peaceful passages were officially “abrogated” by the newer, totally violent and intolerant ones proclaiming and commanding eternal war, they were kept in the Qur’an to deceive all the infidels because, as they note in Mohammad’s own words, “War is deceit!”

Please read the following:

“Kill the Jews and the Christians if they do not convert to Islam or refuse to pay Jizya tax.” (9:29)”Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” (3:85)”Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.” (8:12). “O believers, fight the unbelievers around you” (9:123).

Or, 24:55 (allah’s promise of world domination): “Allah has promised to those of you who believe, that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth.”

Muslims are urged not to be friends with anyone who is not Muslim (4:144, 5:57 and 5:51: “Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends”) – hey! This is “God” talking!

EVERY IMAGINABLE CRIME IS OFFICIALLY COMMANDED TO BE COMMITTED BY ALL MOSLEMS AGAINST ALL THE NON-MOSLEMS IN THE WORLD FOR ALLAH!

Sura At-Taubah 9:29 commands Muslims to wage war against Jews, Christians & Zoroastrians until we are subjugated and submit to extortion.

9:120 promises Muslims that any step taken to injure or enrage disbelievers will be imputed to them by allah as a righteous good deed.

Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of it’s Founder:

“I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”

“I descended by allah with the sword in my hand, and my wealth will come from the shadow of my sword. And the one who will disagree with me will be humiliated and persecuted.”

Muhammad was really only a con-man and bandit-king, an arch-criminal who always blamed “god” for his own penchant for committing crimes. If Moe got away with committing a crime (and he tried them all, enthusiastically, more than once, but instead of ever showing contrition, bragged about how much fun it was to commit them, and advised everyone else to join in the fun, too), then it was held to be “obvious” that “god” wanted him to get away with having committed those crimes!

Sura 48:20: “Allah has promised you abundant spoils that you will capture, and He has hastened for you this, and He has restrained the hands of men from (defending themselves from) you, that it may be a sign for the believers, and that He may guide you to a Straight Path.”

But in reality, the means really only ever define the ends results: when you lie, murder and otherwise steal to get your way, in the end you aren’t a great success; you are still really only a lying, murdering thief!

The ‘theological’ notion of Allah’s “oneness” is CRUCIAL to their main criminal, might-makes-right alibi, that “we aren’t responsible, and no one is ever really a criminal anyway, because we’re really all only victims:

“The Allah Made Me Do It!”“In fact, I didn’t do it at all – only the allah did it! Whee!”

[8.17] So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them, and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; surely Allah is All-Hearing, Knowing.

Sura 4:77: “Those who whined “Hold back your hands (from attacking)” were corrected:“War is compulsory for us – the good and bad both come from allah!”

As Muhammad himself put it, “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4.52.220).

So, islam is not a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) nor is it a “race” (at all, much less one of “Poor, Oppressed, People Of Colour”)!

Obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:

“God told us to commit these crimes!”

(Capisce?)!

;-)

We have laws against being a member of a crime gang, even if one doesn’t specifically engage in any crimes beyond one’s own membership therein endorsing the general threat. In sharia, all muslims are supposed to be regarded as “Objects of Fear” by all infidels, even if the specific muslim hasn’t committed any crimes!

Threats are crimes in themselves – they are psychological attacks, also known as intimidation, bullying, coercion, duress, harrassment, activist agitation, extortion, and “terrorism.”

And even any “only” attempted crimes, are still considered by civilized people to be crimes.

According to their own Eastern histories, islam has an official 1,400 year history of “holy” lies, extortions, robberies, tortures, arsons, kindappings, slaveries, rapes and 270 million murders (that’s OVER A QUARTER-BILLION INNOCENTS SACRIFICED TO ALLAH, so far – it’s a larger death-tally than that of EVERYONE ELSE, both secular and religious, COMBINED, and with an historical average of less than 1% of the global population to have committed it with, too)!

So, simply and precisely because of their “THOU SHALT KILL!” cultural indoctrination, moslems are still from between four and several hundred times more likely to engage in murder and all other crimes, than everyone else in the world!

We should simply BAN ISLAM – because everything moslems pretend to consider “holy” is already a crime!

;-(

If you decide to believe in “allah,” you have declared yourself a criminal, and so must be arrested, indicted, tried and convicted. Your confession of “faith” in your crime-god will help us to do so.

Anonymous is probably someone with the handle of "Ziggy Zoggy," a troll who often posts on FrontPage, as well, to enrich us with his nihilist wisdom. Try and convince him that his posts reflect his "trailer trash" antecedents. He is beyond therapy.

Thanks so much for interrupting the objectively factual adult conversation we were trying to have here to solve the problem of the islamic crime-gang's threat to our descendants, with your subjective opinionated whinings, Anonymous Troll! You may now in good conscience apply for your paycheck from your paymaster, Kamerade Cass Sunstain, Kamerade Obama's Propaganda Czar. Well Done!

The first, original Anonymous said: "visible after approval ya? 100% chance you wont post this

this website is run by a bunch of toothless inbred uneducated trailer trash"

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